Repeating cap-pistol.



No. 843,064. PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907.

' H. BENNETT.

REPEATING GAP PISTOL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 13, 1902.

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No. 843,064. PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907. H. BENNETT.

RBPEATING GAP PISTOL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 13, 1902.

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HARRY BENNETT, ()F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO M. SAMUEL KAMM AND ONE OF NEWARK, NEW' JERSEY.

REPEATING Specification of Application filed September 1 clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part'of this specification.

This invention relates to that class of pistols commonlyknown as cappistols and chiefly used by children or oung people upon the Fourth of July or simil ar occasions.

The objects of the invention are to secure an automatic feeding of the explosive caps beneath the hammer; to accomplish this by simple and yet positive and ell'ectual means; to secure great regularity in feeding and obviate the liability of failure to work roperly; and to obtain other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved toy pistol or detonator and 111 the arrange- 2 ments and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth,- and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several iigures, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved istol with a certain removable side i late ta 'en off and showing the trigger drawn ack and the hammer elevated. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the hammer fallen. Fig. 3 shows th removable side plate of the pistol, and Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section of the pistol, as on line at, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a pistol of modified construction with the side plate removed and showing my improved ca -feeding means applied thereto, the hammer eing retracted. ig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 5, but showing the hammer at the moment of impact with the anvil, the trigger being still in rearmost osition. Fig. 7 is a vertical cross-section of t 1e pistol, as on -HALF TO EMERY E. HARDY, BOTH CAP-PISTOL.

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3,1902. Serial No. 128,247.

line 3 Fig. 6; and Fig. 8 is a side elevation of the complete pistol shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7 and showing in outline the position of parts just prior to firing.

Patented Feb. 5, 1907.

forming the body of a pistol to which I have shown mlv 1m roved cap-feeding devices a plied, alt ioug it will beunderstood that said other detonators 0 any suitable form. Said body provides the usual grip or handle portion 3 and barrel 4, and intermediate of said grip and barrel is hollowed out or chambered,

usual. The handle is also preferably hollow to contain a spring 5 for the hammer, and at one side of the pistol a removable plate 7 is provided to expose said chambers.

In the rear part of the middle chamber 6 of the pistol is pivoted upon a transverse pin 8 the hammer 9, having an upwardly and rearwardlyeurving arm 10, extending through a slot 11 in the walls of the chamber'and adapted under the normal action of the spring 5 to strike upon an anvil 12 above the chamber 6. Beneath and slightly forward of the said hammer is similarly pivoted a trigger 13, projecting outward at its lower portion through a slot 14 and adapted to receive the finger in any usual manner. Said trigger is normally thrown forward by a spring 15, and at 1ts upper end the trigger carries a catch or hooked lever 16,- pivotedon the trigger, as at 17, to swing in the same at its rear end, as at 18, to engage a suitable projection 19 on the hammer, to the end that said hammer ma be retracted or lifted for firing. Said hoo ed arm of the lever is normally held out from the trigger to engage the hammer b a spiral spring 20 and to press the hooked arm away from the hammer at 5 the proper movement and permit said hamg mer to fall. The opposite end of the lever 16 5 forms a curved bearing or cam adapted to engage a fixed pin 21 and depress the other or hooked end as the trigger turns on its pivot.

Coming now to the automatic feeding de l vice, in which my invention more particularly inheres, 22 indicates a.stud at the forward part of the chamber 6 of the pistol and 1 onto which a roll 24 of the paper caps comdevices can be employed in connection with plane therewith. The said lever 16 is hooked In said drawings, 2 indicates a casting as at 6, to receive the lock mechanism, as is J mon in the market is loosely slipped, so that it is free to rotate. The free end of the stri of caps is passed rearwardly through a: feed ing-arm 23 out through a slot 25 in the wall of the pistol-body onto the anvil 12. Said feeding-arm in the referred construction of istol above descri ed is integral with the ammer 10, curving forwardly upward from the pivot 8 of said hammer and adapted to rock or oscillate with the hammer, whereby the free end of the arm. alternately rises and falls. At a point a little back from the ex tremit of the feeding-arm is a projection 26 from t e u per side, which is disposed at approximate y right angles to that portion of the feeding-arm. This projection 26, which 'ves to the arm an appearance in side view of eing bifurcated, is near its end transversely slotted'to receive the strip 27 of caps, said slot 28 being preferably a closed one. p

The roll of caps 24 lies in the same'plane with the anvil, hammer, and feeding arm 23,

and the'free end of the strip extends from theroll over the extremity 29 of the feeding-arm,

so as to lie thereagainst, then through the slot 28 inth'e projection '26, and thence to the anvil 12. When the feeding-arm is on its upward stroke, the lower forward edge and upper rear edge of the slot '28 engage the strip 27 and grip. the same sufliciently to unwind a little from the roll 24 andpush the free'end out throughgthe opening 25 onto the anvil.

Then on the downstroke the strip slips,

.ticularly described, and in Figs. 5-8 I have illustrated another such construction. Here amnier. 30 slides horizontally forward in wa 1 at the sides of the interior chambe'r' 32 of"-the pistol-body under the action of a sp ral'spring 33. A trigger 34 of the yp y 1, 1902, Serial" No. 105,538, works alsoh oiizontally beneath said hammer, b"e-' ingnorinally held in forward position by a spiral spring 35. Said trigger has pivoted on its upper end, as at 3-7, a feeding-arm 36, which extends horizontally forward, as at' 38, and 'thenupw'ard, as at 39, to engage the capstrip 27, as before described. lo uscillate the feeding-arm 36, the rear cud oi its tun-ivzontal portion is beveled, as at .39. and adiipted to engage a fixed pin'40 as the nigger is drawn back, wherebythe forward end portion 38 isfthrown downward, as indicate. in

Fig. 6. A small spiral spring 41 normally holds the feeding-sun in upward position.

that the outer end of :he latter remains in position'upon the anvil by it's natural stiffness, and the feeding-arm slips loosely along the strip. On its upward stroke the table or extremity 29 of. the feeding-arm presses upward against the under side of the cap-strip, ea usin the same to bind in the slot 28 or become xed with res ect thereto, so that the cap-stri is carried orward with the feedin arm and more inward from the roll24. Wit every pull on the trigger, therefore, theha mer 1s raised, a cap fe beneath, and the harm mer caused to fall again. v, I

In the modified. construction shown in Figs.i58 the hammer 30 is engaged for retraction by a shoulder 42 on the feedingarm, and since in this construction the anvll 43 is vertically disposed a guide 44 is located at the base thereof opposite the opening 45, throu h which the cap-strip feeds to turn the end- 0 the strip upward, as shown in said figures. A door 46in the top of the hollow middle portion 6 of the pistol-body enables the roll of caps to be conveniently inserted.

I claim as new is t 1. In a repeating capistol, the combination with an anvil and a ammer, of a pivoted feeding-arm having a slot in its free end adapted to receive a strip of caps extending in the direction of movement of the arm, said arm having a portion of itself adapted to engage the strip at a distance from said slot, and means for arm.

2. In a cap-pistol, the combination with,

an anvil and a hammer, of a feeding-arm pivoted at one end and adapted to engage at the other end a strip of caps, a projection upon said arm near its free end slotted to receive the strip of 'caps'and hold the same in the plane of the arm, and means for oscillating said feeding-arm. I

3. In a, cap-pistol, the combination with an'anvliland a pivoted hammer, of a capfeeding arm projecting from said hammer and adapted to oscillate therewith, said arm having a slotted projection to receive the cap strip andan 'extremity'portion ada ted to alternately engage and disengage t e capstrip.

4. .In a cap-pistol, the combination of a pivoted hammer having a forwardly and upwardly extending feeding-arm slotted near its end to receive a strip of caps, a sprin normally throwing said hammer forwar and a trigger for retracting said hammer and automatically releasing the same.

5. In a cap-pistol, the combination of a pivoted hammer having a forwardly and up- Having thus described the invention, what.

oscillating said feeding therewith and transversely slotted near its wardly curving cap -feeding arm integral In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of end to receive a strip of eaps, a hammer- June, 1902. spring, a trigger independent of said hami HARRY BENNETT. mer, a lever on said trigger adapted to en- Witness-es:

gage the hammer, and means for tripping I CHARLES H. PELL, said lever and releasing the hammer. C. B. PIT1 IEY. 

